From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
To: "Robert Schwebel" <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
tonyko@lineo.ca, robin.getz@analog.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: blackfin - cmpxchg not atomic ?
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:37:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8bd0f97a0707210137j186554b6tb22e7f36237e862f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070721072930.GS1678@pengutronix.de>
On 7/21/07, Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:36:12PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > Also, does you assembly stub _really_ modify memory atomically ? If yes,
> > > then there should be no need for disabling interrupts. Else, I see a
> > > major problem with SMP.
> >
> > that isnt the only problem with SMP on Blackfin
>
> Could you ealborate?
i'm pretty sure there's already been a thread on LKML about it ... the
fact that our parts currently lack any sort of cache snooping or
control over any other is a huge issue.
we've contracted a company to do SMP, but it'll have quite a bit of
overhead since it'll need to do a lot of communication/message passing
between cores to account for these hardware deficiencies.
-mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-21 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-20 20:28 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-20 20:36 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-20 20:45 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-07-20 20:59 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-21 7:29 ` Robert Schwebel
2007-07-21 8:37 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2007-07-23 17:24 ` Robin Getz
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